I haven't touched it since Friday night. Currently it has no rear driveshaft, no drivers side shock and the swaybar is as useless as a shrubbery. We limped it home like that.

Only one of the upper shock bolts is sheared off. The other is still intact. I'm going to try and extract the broken one. If not, I'll have to drill it out and tap new threads. Worst case, I'll cut into the rear deck and weld a nut in there. We just have a lot going on right now so I'm not going to be able to get to it for a few weeks.

I agree with Mark...Bob did an AWESOME job as lead....but I demand a recount on me as safest driver. Has anyone who voted actually seen me wheel? _________________97 XJ Sport with a bunch of stuff

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Never argue with idiots, they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience

CJ5 hill is just a slick, steep rock. Although it's named because it was a CJ5 that first made it up successfully, longer wheelbases tend to do better on it that shorter wheelbases. Lockers help (and she has one), but if you don't have precisely the right line, you won't make it up. Jimmy was trying to get her to approach it from the left side to build some momentum and then turn into the groove. He assumed that she knew to turn into it....she didn't...

She hit the tree, which bounced the front end up in the air and twisted the body on the rear axle....hard. As the body twisted (violently) the rear sway bar end links snapped, which caused the drivers side shock to become the limiter. It sheared off one of the upper bolts and the shock fell out. With that limiter gone, the body continued to rotate on the rear axle, which resulted in the spring falling out. The twist was so far that the double cardian joint in the driveshaft couldn't take it anymore and one of the ujoint trunnions sheared off. The yoke of the rear axle also hit the muffler (leaving a nice dent). I'm not sure if it was the yoke hitting the muffler that cracked it or if it was just the extreme angle that the pinion side ujoint was at.

All of this took about two or three seconds....if that long. If she hadn't listened to Jimmy when he said 'stop', it most likely would have been MUCH worse as the bushings in the drivers side upper and lower control arms were very close to tearing out of their mounts on the frame side._________________97 XJ Sport with a bunch of stuff

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Never argue with idiots, they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience

She hit the tree, which bounced the front end up in the air and twisted the body on the rear axle....hard. As the body twisted (violently) the rear sway bar end links snapped, which caused the drivers side shock to become the limiter. It sheared off one of the upper bolts and the shock fell out. With that limiter gone, the body continued to rotate on the rear axle, which resulted in the spring falling out. The twist was so far that the double cardian joint in the driveshaft couldn't take it anymore and one of the ujoint trunnions sheared off. The yoke of the rear axle also hit the muffler (leaving a nice dent). I'm not sure if it was the yoke hitting the muffler that cracked it or if it was just the extreme angle that the pinion side ujoint was at.

It's a prime case for sway bar end links group buy!_________________Some people are like slinkeys, they’re not of much use but they will still bring a smile to your face if someone pushes them down the stairs.

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